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President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday night, hours after Yates ordered Justice Department lawyers not to defend his immigration order temporarily banning entry into the United States for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from around the world. In a news release, the White House said Yates had "betrayed the Department of Justice… Read more »

President Donald Trump is looking at an Arkansas congressman for money-related posts, according to recent press accounts. U.S. Rep. French Hill, a Republican from Little Rock, is being considered for a spot on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, Bloomberg and Reuters reported this month. Two other media outlets, Dow Jones and American Banker, say Hill is one of the… Read more »

Sheridan High School senior Sean Fitzgerald recently accepted an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. He is the son of Dennis and Lee Anne Fitzgerald. “With an acceptance rate comparable to those of Ivy League schools like Yale and Princeton — the U.S. Naval Academy is ranked one of the most challenging institutions of higher learning to get into,” a spokesman said… Read more »

U.S. Representative French Hill (R-2nd District) is the latest member of Arkansas's House delegation to back President Trump's refugee order while calling for peeling back restrictions on green card holders and others. Hill issued a statement on Monday afternoon. "While modest inconveniences are acceptable in order to keep our homeland safe, blocking U.S. green card holders, students and… Read more »

Arkansas's congressional delegation is lining up to support President Donald Trump's moves to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. President Trump utilized the power of executive orders on Tuesday to expedite reviews of the projects and re-start processes halted or delayed by former President Obama. Following Trump's moves U.S. Representative French Hill, of the 2nd… Read more »

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines. He also signed an executive order to expedite environmental reviews of other infrastructure projects, lamenting the existing "incredibly cumbersome, long, horrible permitting process." "The regulatory process in this country has become a tangled-up mess," he said. Many of… Read more »

An energy project that is sharply opposed by members of the all-Republican Arkansas congressional delegation was on President Donald Trump's pre-inauguration "priority list" of "emergency and national security projects," according to a document obtained by the Kansas City Star and released Tuesday. A spokesman for the president cautioned late Tuesday that the list is not a White House… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders to advance the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects, a move that was hailed by members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation and criticized by the Arkansas Sierra Club. “The fact that this was one of the first items on President Trump’s agenda speaks volumes about how his… Read more »

Outta the woods and into the mainstream.  Here come the Hungarians. A post-inaugural reception the day after President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office drew transition team representatives and members of Congress to the future home of the Hungarian embassy. It was a high-regard tip of the hat to the new Trump Administration.  Even, a Hungarian dog showed love. Rep. Don… Read more »

Before standing on the U.S. Capitol lawn to watch Friday's inauguration, scores of Arkansans had a pre-dawn breakfast with their congressmen. The four House members from Arkansas, all Republicans, teamed up to provide the meal. "We wanted them to have a cup of coffee and something warm before they go out and face the elements," U.S. Rep. French Hill of Little Rock said. The gathering… Read more »